What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Show. Today we're going to talk about Basil.

Basil is a simple herb. It is one of the best plants you can grow if you're just starting out in your gardening journey And if you are an expert gardener,

it's still fun to grow.

There's a lot you can do with it.

There's some pruning techniques you might not know about.

And there are some interesting varieties

you can experiment with if you've been gardening for a while and basil sounds a little boring to you.

So let's get into it.

First of all, as always you can go to epic gardening.com forward slash growing

dash basil and you can check that out that's the full guide we're going to go

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All right, let's get into some basil.

So first of all, just a little bit of history.

So it is known as the Royal Herb, and the name derives from the Greek word for king

Basileos which is something that I did not know until recently.

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